Everywhere we look in the twenty-first century, we find efforts to change and efforts to resist change. Pitt Sociology faculty and graduate students study a variety of past and present social movements in the United States and worldwide. Our department is home to the Pittsburgh Social Movement Forum, a setting for discussions of new ideas in social-movement studies, lectures, presentations of student and faculty work-in-progress, and book discussions among scholars from various departments and universities in the Pittsburgh area. The Pittsburgh Social Movement Forum also sponsors speakers and mini-conferences on major social-movement issues. Our recent emphases have been on state repression of social movements, global labor organizing, race and collective action in prisons, and emotions in social movement research, among many more.